Tuesday, December 19, 2006

BookMarkIt! is my 3rd Media center application. If Micro$oft did a better job with MediaCenter maybe I would'nt have to write so many damn plugins. This one only took a couple hours to create.

I wrote this because I can never finish a movie in one sitting, so this app allows me to resume the video from the last saved video bookmark.I hate the fact that I cannot fastforward quickly on a DivX, XviD or Mpeg.I have to use Skip, which takes forever if your video is long.BookMarkIt! will create a bookmark in whatever video file you are viewing in MyVideos so you can resume from that bookmark at a later point.

Usage: Once your video is playing, click the i (more info) button on your remote or right click with your mouse, then choose More... Then you will see a screen like this:

Then simply hit Save bookmark to save, or open bookmark to resume from saved bookmark.

I have only tried this on MCE2005 with rollup2. I am unsure about other versions.

I thought about doing exactly that but I think AVI controller 2 might be a better place to put it. The new avi controller is packaged with MCE File Broswer 2.0. It's much more powerful because you can skip anywhere with it's built in progress bar.

Great tool, but i've found that if you bookmark a video and then start watching another video, then try come back to the saved bookmark it doesn't work saying "No bookmarks" However, If i bookmark a particular video then immediately try load it again it works fine. Has anyone else had similar problems?

I didn't respond because I don't have a simple solution for you. I have seen this happen before. read this thread: http://www.xpmediacentre.com.au/community/mce-plugins-addons/16283-error-installing-addins.html?highlight=bookmarkit

BookMarkIt! does not appear in the More Programs submenu. It only appears in the More... submenu when right-clicking on a video file. When right clicking on the "Open Video Bookmark" item in the More... submenu, the only option is "Settings" which brings you to the standard Media Center settings page.

I'm having the issue I've seen elsewhere where the install fails with a message to the effect of "this addin can only be installed on a media center edition of Windows XP" and I have Windows MCE with all the updates. Any advice? How about a manual install procedure (I extracted the msi)?

Hi. I've been using BookmarkIt for a while now and its great but just updated to Windows 7 and notice that there is now no "more" option when you do a "right click". Is there a Windows 7 supported version of BookMarkIt yet?thanks:o(

Hi there, I'm still trying to use Bookmarkit! on my xbox360 mce 2005 extender. There's no way to make the mcx user access the file bookmark.txt in ehome so my question is: is there a way to change the file location in the program code in some way?? Thank you very much for your help and my compliments for the very good work. carlozzoc@excite.it